-- This is for ART ONLY. Any pen-portraits, or crappy scribbles padded-out with words will cause a deployment of the newly-trained Urethral Attack Maggots. And a banned account. -- No stock-photo manipulation. No half-arsed bollocks. Anything deemed to be piss-takery will be nuked from orbit. (Original photography is fine.)-- No more than ONE submission by any one person.

INSTRUCTIONS:

SAVE US, 80’s CARTOONS, YOU’RE OUR ONLY HOPE

It has been noted that today’s world has taken a peculiar lurch toward 80sdom. Uberconservatism in politics, racism in the news, trouble in the Falklands, riots on the streets, assaults upon the welfare state, godawful haircuts, an overzealous deployment of secondary colours in fashion, yuppiescum wiping their arses on the communal cashpot, and a general all-consuming pall of evil, doom and villainy hanging above the West.

…that is to say, with a torrent of French/Japanese/American animations about groups of broadly-anatomically-correct men and women in cellshade supercolour costumes, hitting/shooting/chasing shit, fighting against mincing cacklefops, walking jerkily past lavishly-painted backgrounds and always always always ending the day laughing unconvincingly at an irritating slapstick pet/sidekick and decrying the Evil Of Drugs. Also, the greatest themetunes EVER KNOWN.

You know the type, yes? Thundercats, Pole Position, Masters Of The Universe, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Ulysses 31, Dungeons & Dragons, She-Ra, Mask, Defenders Of The Earth, Mysterious Cities of Gold, aaaand so on. These are the cultural bedrock of my generation, oh chittering art-monkeys, and I have never ended a pub conversation without an attempt to remember all Marshall Bravestarr’s animal powers. “Smells like a wolf”, arf arf.

Ulysses, UlyssesSoaring through all the galaxies,In search of Earth, flying into the night. Ulysses, UlyssesFighting evil and tyranny,With all his power, and with all of his might.

Great Theme tune, a light sabre-gun combo and fantastic facial hair, what more could you want? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10494&Focus=325161#Comment_325161Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:21:46 -0600FredGREMAKE/REMODEL: Save Us, 80s Cartoons, You're Our Only Hope (NEW DEADLINE -- CLOSES MARCH 4TH)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10494&Focus=325166#Comment_325166
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10494&Focus=325166#Comment_325166Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:27:46 -0600PAUL SWAINBit of a forum luddite, I'm afraid (only two prior visits to such sites: ended in tears and generally soured them to me; although these here parts seem much more affable)-so apologies if any of my netiquette's below par, in advance.I'm assuming I've uploaded the image wrongly, too (if at all). I'll do my best to edit any mistakes, but if I fail...More apologies.

Got a frustratingly fragile ego to work with, so if there's any way I can bribe any of you to play nice and generally avoid "ghastly" "talentless" "abhorrent" "eye-gauging" "kill yourself now" or anything along those lines:that'd be well appreciated. I do have Jaffa Cakes and rum. (That's my bribe, not a disassociated declaration.)

Not much for committment, so if I just dump and run here and you say something nice that I've not had the courtesy to check back on and reply to fast enough: thanks in advance.

Lastly:beautiful stuff so far on this thread, folks.

Paul

(edit-Sorry-the simplicity of uploading an image has clearly been beyond my capacity. I'll try and figure out what I'm doing wrong, but the image I'm attempting to upload's over at Flickr here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulswain/6924534575/Sorry again.)

(final edit-OK-Think that's sorted. Beaten to it by "allistermac" and his lovely hatching by the time I've finally managed the technology, of course, but I'm damned if I'm gonna start being capable of achieving my goals on time today...Thanks for the patience, guys.) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10494&Focus=325180#Comment_325180Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:36:58 -0600Horrible Warning SiREMAKE/REMODEL: Save Us, 80s Cartoons, You're Our Only Hope (NEW DEADLINE -- CLOSES MARCH 4TH)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10494&Focus=325189#Comment_325189
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10494&Focus=325189#Comment_325189Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:29:57 -0600roadscum
"ghastly" "talentless" "abhorrent" "eye-gauging" "kill yourself now" or anything along those linesNah, you won't get any of that round here, we have a selection of wriggly wildlife that rapidly puts paid to any such unpleasantness. Anyway, we are, in our sweet ways, most civilised.

@roadscum: Hearty cheers your way, too. I'd mirror the promise made to Si and proclaim the booze and cakes to be on me; but I fear I'm heading down the same rhetorical cul-de-sac a second time. Or severely misquoting "Withnail and I".

@keyofsilence: Not entirely sure I deserve thanks (or 50% of it), but right back atcha. Thanks for the thanks, that is. Also: so did I. Seemingly endless weeks of awesome from the broom cupboard.

Cheers, folks. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10494&Focus=325216#Comment_325216Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:42:19 -0600DMir.Anda
I was wondering, given that I believe this R/R theme is excellent, if it could be possible to extend the deadline for another week? I believe all the entries so far are excellent, but I'm also surprised by how few of them there are so far - I don't know if the people have been busy?

On a related, probably irrelevant, personal note, I was hoping to work on mine this weekend, but as my university is probably going to join a national student strike movement on Monday, I'm afraid I'll be busy getting implicated in that. I guess I might not be the only one with conflicting plans?